[PATCH] Fixing most Roland-related devices' USB audio

[Geraldo]

Em Qua, 31 de mar de 2021 23:19, Lucas <jaffa225man at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Thanks for the encouragement and wisdom.  I hope your additions, and mine,
> work out in the end.
>

They will!

A real hurdle with tasking everyone with patching for their devices, aside
> from having probably long since given up hope for use of the device on
> GNU/Linux, is the amount of disparate forums they voiced their issues on.
> There's also the daunting likelihood that select few music creators
> actually would decide to compile their own kernels to see if a problem is
> fixed, let alone feel comfortable enough applying a patch.
>

Recompiling kernels with custom patches and workarounds for regular devices
is madness. This should be needed only for development purposes.


> I hadn't realized this was a list to drum up testers, or that every change
> needs to be tested fully.  I thought it was a direct path to possible
> acceptance for inclusion in the kernel, if reasonable doubts are considered.
>

Well the Linux kernel has to be somewhat orderly even if the open source
development model is inherently chaotic.

This should be a list with lots of testers but I'll bet the volume scares
them off.


> I hope they'll let me sidestep that huge, unreasonable, undertaking, as my
> test implicit feedback "fix" for the UA-4FX (which doesn't need it) proved
> it still functions as perfectly as without it.
>

I disagree a bit with you. It's not very wise to add unneeded quirks.

That should mean that for the devices that don't require this patch, but
> which had been accidentally added, no harm is done.  I can't really see
> myself as owner of all these devices someday... ;)
>
> Thanks again, Geraldo!,
>
>   Lucas Endres
>

Thank you,
Geraldo Nascimento

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